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From a summarised overview dashboard, to the ability to drill down into detailed views, to the capability to build
your own report views, the Performance Accelerators are packaged into role modules with prebuilt calculations,
models, reports and dashboards.
Sales
Running and managing a sales organisation effectively is key to success. In order to
make better decisions to drive performance, your sales team needs to be kept up
to date with their performance. Sales analytics are not only a visual function of
performance but more importantly, by drilling down to detail, allows your users to
flag outliers and spot causal factors.
Senior Executives
Gives a strategic view on current performance trends, so that your executives can focus on repeating outstanding performance or address worrying trends. Product and customer analysis views allow your executives to
determine future performance and focus marketing and sales efforts where necessary.
Sales Managers
Gives your managers a vital operational tool and provides compelling insights not just into overall sales force
performance, but the performance of teams and individual sales people.
Sales Team
Motivates your salesforce by illustrating how they are performing, and enabling them to benchmark themselves
against their peers. Through analysing the customers and products they sell, sales individuals can understand
and define their action lists to better execute their sales plan.
Procurement
Save money by driving smarter, faster spend decisions. Reduce costs and increase
profitability by giving your users a view of procurement across your organisation.
Enable your procurement team and senior executives to visualise and analyse spend
across your organisation, from an overview expenditure dashboard to the ability to
drill down to transactional detail.
Take control of your procurement performance by ensuring your planning is
optimised to ensure lead times are maintained. Forecast correctly to consistently
meet customer needs.
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The Procurement Performance Accelerator supplies a detailed vendor analysis dashboard to allow you to identify
performance over time and against specific contract parameters.
The specific views allow you to analyse buyer behaviour and performance to identify where efficiencies can be
achieved.
The item analysis views allow you to identify spend patterns of commodities
Product pricing comparison provides the ability to compare commodity unit costs across buyers and vendors
Optimise procurement spend analysis to assist the organisation in understanding how their purchasing impacts on their
procurement scoring and performance.
Human Resources
Gain competitive advantage by leveraging your investment in human
capital. By giving you greater visibility of the performance of your people,
as well as their profile, the HR Performance Accelerator helps you to better
understand the efficiency and utilisation of your people, presenting a
significant opportunity to run the organisation more effectively.
The HR Performance Accelerator gives you a summarised top-down view of the key HR metrics. At a glance, you can
compare trends and movements over time. Integrate your HR plan into strategy with an overall view of the total
amount and the quality of talent, knowledge, and expertise in your organisation.
Understand not only what happened in the past, anticipate the future by looking at unusual patterns in data and
statistically validating behaviours.
Understand, in detail, your organisation’s headcount, turnover, demographics over periods of time, allowing you to
understand the metrics to enable you to put into place attraction and retention strategies.
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Manage costs by understanding overtime and costs over time and geographic measures.
Visualise how the demographics of your organisation impact your employment equity strategy, allowing you to
manage proactively to meet target requirements.
Analyse the number and distribution of days leave across different leave types and drill down into individuals’ leave
patterns.
Finance
Make better economic decisions by easily reviewing and analysing your company’s
financial performance and position.
The Financial Performance Accelerator gives the finance team access to data in
highly visual formats to enable them to evaluate risk, performance, financial health
and the organisation’s future prospects to effectively support the management
decision making process.
A summarised finance dashboard, in a single view, allows you to monitor the financial health of the organisation by
viewing revenue, gross profit and net profit against budget for current period or year, compared to the previous
period or year. In addition the view provides a snapshot of key financial ratios that executives need to see in order to
drive success.
Drilling down to more detailed analysis, your finance team can analyse the breakdown of the income statements,
balance sheet and trial balance across the divisions and cost centres to the journal entry transactional detail.
A waterfall model allows you to visualise the movements recorded in the income statement and helps validate
assumptions about the composition of the income statement line items. Also included is graphical trending
visualisation of key income statement and balance sheet line items.
Debtor and Creditor views - in an increasingly credit-driven economy, it's important for your business to understand
debtor and creditor positions in order to make savvy decisions - whether they relate to lending money or entering
into a new business agreement.
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What are Performance Accelerators?
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How Long Is Implementation?
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What Analytics Platform Do I Need?
Consisting of prebuilt dashboards, analytics and reports for functional areas, based on pre-constructed
models, the Performance Accelerators models have been built in consultation with business analysts,
functional specialists and technical experts.
A Performance Accelerator can be implemented in a matter of days, dramatically reducing the time
typically spent analysing visualisation requirements for specific business areas. Based on best practices,
the analytics will typically meet the majority of your information requirements. Any additional requirements can quickly and easily be analysed and accommodated within the existing models.
The Performance Accelerators are currently available on leading analytics platforms such as SAP, QlikView,
Microsoft and MicroStrategy, for data sources such as Syspro, AccPac, SAP, VIP and Pastel Evolution.
Decision Inc. has partnered with the world’s top business intelligence vendors,
and can advise you should you not have an existing analytics platform.
What Are the Benefits?
Accelerated return in investment on your analytics platform
Significant reduction in time spent in implementing analytic solutions
Users are provided the business insight they need in order to make better decisions, faster.
Increase user adoption of analytics across functional roles
Drive change by giving users greater insight into their current performance.
How Do I Get More Information?
Call: +27 (0)11 025 2300
E-mail: info@decisioninc.co.za
Visit: www.decisioninc.co.za